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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Not The Way To Spark A Career

Holidays
are supposed to be fun, time you spend with family and friends. They are not
for destroying your career, though someone apparently did not tell NY Giants DL
Jason Pierre-Paul or Buccaneers DB CJ Wilson, who both were injured in
fireworks accidents this past weekend.

In
the case of Jason Pierre-Paul, who is still in the hospital, the Giants pulled
their $60-million long-term contract offer. No information has been released
about his injury and he refuses to see anyone from the team so beyond the
initial announcement stating he had injuries to both arms and possible nerve
damage nobody knows if he will be able to play this upcoming season which would mean he will play under the "Franchise" tag.

CJ
Wilson may have just sunk his career with his accident, where he lost two
fingers. He played in two games last year and has an unguaranteed $585,000
salary that runs through this upcoming season. If he does not play, he doesn’t
get paid and he does not prove he is worthy of a future contract.

JPP had a solid year last year so his cards are holding their value for now. If he needs to take off a season or gets cut his prices will dip but if the damage turns out to be limited he can continue and his cards will rebound. Wilson has no cards, that I can find any way, so as far as his collectability goes it can not get any worse.

Hopefully both men will come out of the situation as best as possible under the circumstances and stand as a cautionary tale for people in the future.

1 comment:

Read that JPP had a finger amputated. Could be just speculation... but regardless if I was making their kind of money and my body was my paycheck... I probably would have went to a baseball game and watched the fireworks there. Or... if I absolutely needed a front row seat... then have one of your buddies light them off.

About Me

I started collecting as a kid but by the time I hit my teens my interests were elsewhere. I returned to the hobby in 1992, just in time to see the junk wax era go in to full swing. My collecting interests have changed over the past 25 years and I prefer to focus on just a couple of players.

My collection is very specific now because I want to keep it controlled and organized, I now focus mainly on my Ken Griffey Jr. & Jay Buhner collections.